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294 and who objects to this? Ought we not, then, to approve any cure effected by making the disease appear to be — what it really is — an illusion ?

Here is the difficulty, that generally it is not understood how one disease is just as much a delusion as

another. It is a pity that the medical faculty and clergy have not found this out, for Jesus established this foundational fact, when devils were cast out and the dumb spake.

Are we irreverent towards sin, or imputing too much to God, when we ascribe to Him almighty Life and Love?

I deny His co-operation with evil, because I can have no faith in any other power but God's. Is it not well to eliminate from mortal mind what, so long as it remains within, will show itself in forms of sin, sickness, and death? Instead of tenaciously defending the supposed rights of disease, while complaining of the suffering it brings, would it not be wiser to abandon the defence; especially when, by so doing, our own condition can be improved, and that of other people as well?

I have never supposed this century would witness the full fruitage of Christian Science, or that sin, disease,

and death would not continue for centuries to come; but this I do aver, that, as a result of teaching Christian Science, ethics and temperance have received an impulse, health has been restored, and longevity increased. If such are the present fruits, what may not the harvest be, when this Science is more generally understood?

As Paul asked of the unfaithful in ancient days, so the rabbis of the present day ask concerning our healing